Another View: U.S. needs to stop jerking Canada around

Another View

10:20 PM,
Jan. 25, 2014

Written by

Charles Krauthammer

Fixated as we Americans are on Canada's three most attention-getting exports - polar vortexes, Alberta clippers and the antics of Toronto's addled mayor - we've somewhat overlooked a major feature of Canada's current relations with the United States: extreme annoyance.

Last week, speaking to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Canada's foreign minister calmly but pointedly complained that the United States owes Canada a response on the Keystone XL pipeline. "We can't continue in this state of limbo," he sort of complained, in what for a placid, imperturbable Canadian passes for an explosion ...